Irish Government Criticized Over Housing Policy

“Yeah, so what I'm keen to look at really, when this idea came from lobbyists who suggested it could provide up to 350,000 homes in the country. and the politicians”

“could provide up to 350,000 homes in the country. and the politicians”

“could provide up to 350,000 homes in the country. and the politicians So I went on it and I kind of picked the idea apart just under different headings to see what the issues are. And so the idea here is to quote the minister to remove bureaucracy and red tape. But I reckon that it'll end up creating more bureaucracy and red tape. So there was very little research going around building regulations, particularly for access to disabled people or ventilation, fire safety, if you think about back garden and terrorist houses, how fire brigades are supposed to get to that, and hope people are suppos”

“Irish housing plan may foster black market.”

“Irish Housing Plan May Foster Black Market”

“to see how many people actually do that because I still breathe. you know government are very quick to take up ideas from from various sectors of the industry for example without taking the implications through and that is exactly what happened when we had the last time we had a you know the economic and property crisis back in 2008 that's exactly what happened and you know there was a whole lot of hurting and group think and people were afraid to to kind of challenge ideas because the populist narrative was so populist I suppose and we ran with everything that we knew deep in our hearts wasn'”

“point that if we really careful when it comes to housing because”